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“This fascinating and rich collection of essays by M.P.T. Acharya significantly deepens our understandings of transnational radical thought in the early twentieth century.” —Kama Maclean, author of A Revolutionary History of Interwar India

The first collection of essays by India’s anticolonial anarchist revolutionary, M.P.T. Acharya (1887–1954), including critical reflections on Gandhian nonviolence.

M.P.T. Acharya was a contemporary and critic of Mohandas Gandhi during the Indian Independence Movements, who imagined a tremendous anarchistic potential in the practice of non-violent direct action. He was also a prolific writer, whose essays are testimony to a tireless agitator and intellectual. His work demonstrates the global reach of anarchism in the interwar period and enables a more nuanced understanding of Indian anticolonial struggles.